From cats and dogs to turkeys, a goat, a pig, a katydid and more, folks in this industry have photographed a variety of creatures in and around school buses. Here's a collection of interesting and amusing shots from operations around the country.
PHOTOS: Animals and Insects Go Yellow
Youngren and her colleagues at Freeman School District #358 in Rockford, Wash., found Eve in their operation's bus yard. To read more about Eve and the book written about her, click here.
This dog was one of several that received training as a service animal on how to correctly enter and ride a bus during an event at Massachusetts-based Vendetti Bus Co. To read more about the training day and to see more photos, click here.
These prairie dogs are ready to board the school bus. The photoshopped photo was sent to us by Steve Cohen.
Have you had a turkey perch on top of your school bus? This shot was submitted to us, with the photographer adding a watercolor-type effect on the photo.
This shot of a rather large turkey and a goat was submitted by Tammy Coates from a Head Start in Lynchburg, Va. It was an honorable mention in our 2012 Photo Contest.
Pictured is Eve, the subject of Itty Bitty School Bus Kitty, written by school bus driver Katie Youngren.
Inspector J. Valley from the Massachusetts Department of Transportation’s Vehicle Safety and Compliance Service found this bird’s nest while performing a bus inspection. The bus was a spare in the fleet at Whittier Vocational Technical High School in Haverhill, Mass. The nest was left there until the eggs hatched and the birds left the nest.
Watch your step indeed! Looks like this dog wants to make sure the right people get on the bus safely. The photo was submitted by Angela Baldwin, a bus driver for Jenks (Okla.) Public Schools.
Mitch Moore, a bus technician at Hoover (Ala.) City Schools, spotted this rather large frog while servicing a bus and snapped a few photos of it. “I guess I was entertaining this fellow,” Moore says.
This bus is carrying some extra (if light) cargo! School bus driver Jennie Golden snapped this photo of a katydid on a bus as she was walking into her operation's transportation facility. Golden works for Sanders (Ariz.) Unified School District #18.
A pig investigates a toy bus in this photo by Charlene Penney from Vendetti Bus Co. in Milford, Mass.
A cat takes a nap on a seat in a bus in this photo by Lisa Hoffman, who works for a school bus contractor in Washington County, Md.
A school bus waits for this pooch that found its way into the street. The photo was submitted by industry consultant Dick Fischer, who retired in 2013.